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Belt of Pearls
<p>Belt of Pearls is a collection of poems concerned with the idea of home in both places and in</p> <p>people. The speaker wrestles with dissatisfaction with home as a place of origin. The ties of</p> <p>family, familiar landmarks, and old relationships are outgrown; the feeling of belonging …
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Rust Belt Blues
Alison Stine's Rust Belt Blues is a book-length work of linked creative nonfiction essays set in former manufacturing towns in Ohio, Indiana, and upstate New York. In pieces that range from autobiography to literary journalism, she focuses on abandoned places and people in the area known as the …
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Colors of Kuiper Belt objects : the relationship between KBO colors and Kuiper Belt plane inclination
… the sun just beyond Neptune, known as the Kuiper Belt. These objects, thought to be the progenitors of short period comets, could provide a sample of primordial material in our solar system, constraining solar system formation models. The colors of Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) can indicate different …
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Energy audit methodology for belt conveyors
… the largest components of operating costs on a belt conveyor system. This dissertation introduces a unique Conveyor Electricity Cost Efficiency Audit Methodology (CECEAM). In the CECEAM the conveyor system is evaluated from a high to detail level in order to identify opportunities to improve …
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Experimental analysis of specific auditory-light safety belt reminder systems and safety belt behavior: "prods" or "prompts"
Safety belt reminder systems are ubiquitously present in most, if not alI automobiles sold in the United States. Past research has found that the effectiveness of these reminder systems have shown minimal social benefit in the effort to increase safety belt use. The current investigation was …
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Teenage compliance to Texas safety belt law
… to observe non-compliance of the mandatory seat belt law and to determine if there were behavioral changes as a result of an educational program, as well as, a threat of a fine. Data were collected 3 times: prior to the treatment, at the conclusion of the treatment, and the day following the …
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Models of Continental Fold-Thrust Belt Salients
… salients, which form where fold-thrust belts mold to the preexisting irregular shape of the margin; and (4) detachment-controlled salients, which form due to variations in the lateral continuity of weak glide horizons. From this work, it is clear that structural trendline patterns in a …
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A study of binary Kuiper Belt objects
… in diameter (Jewitt 1998) reside in the Kuiper Belt, beyond the orbit of Neptune. Since 1992 observational surveys have discovered over one thousand of these objects, believed to be fossil remnants of events that occurred nearly 4.5 billion years ago. Sixteen of these objects are currently known …
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Design of a four-point seat-belt presenter
… this thesis was to design and prototype a seat-belt presenter of a four-point seat-belt system for the Lear Corporation. The seat-belt presenter designed is to be implemented in automobile seats in order to facilitate putting a four-point seat belt. The worked perform is the culmination of both …
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Dynamics of belt-driven servomechanisms : theory and experiments
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2003.
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Design of a belt-driven continuously variable transmission
Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1994.
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Municipal sludge dewatering using a belt filter press
… determine the optimum polymer conditioning for a belt filter press The optimum polymer dosages for all three zones of a belt filter press were compared with each other to determine the best overall conditioning. The requirements of all three zones of a belt filter press were the same. However, the …
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Geology of the Meherrin, Virginia area: tracing formations across the staurolite isograd from the Carolina slate belt into the Charlotte belt
… the northern terminus of the Carolina slate belt in the area of Meherrin, Virginia extends the previously known limits of the Hyco and Aaron Formations from the greenschist metamorphic facies Carolina slate belt northward across a staurolite isograd into the amphibolite metamorphic facies …
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Finite Element Analysis of Passenger Multiple Belt Restraint Configurations
Injury measures have been developed for crash test dummies to associate the data generated to some meaningful measure to the human body. While the crash test dummies offered an important surrogate for the human body in real world crash testing, in finite element modeling, models of the human body …
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Energy in the Corn Belt: Is Maize Production Sustainable?
… energy inputs. Located in the Western Corn Belt, Union County, South Dakota was chosen as the study area. Changes in production methods are represented by four technological epochs: 1) The Draft Horse Epoch, 1890-1920; 2) The Tractor Epoch, 1920-1950; 3) The Fertilizer Epoch, 1950-1980; and …
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Earth's outer electron radiation belt : sources, losses and predictions
The outer electron radiation belt is highly dynamic in space and time. Understanding the mechanisms that drive these variations is of high interest to the scientific community because of the negative effects that the radiation belt can have on satellite instrumentation. Evidence in support of a …
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Structural Evolution of the Himalayan Thrust Belt, West Nepal
… in the central portion of the Himalayan thrust belt. Presently, structural interpretations of the thrust belt do not explain in detail how these strata were incorporated into the thrust belt and why they are not widely exposed throughout the Himalaya. My research provides answers to these two …
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